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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
May. 09, 2016
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Rajiv Dayal, Milpitas, CA (US);
Christopher P. Lee, Campbell, CA (US);
Allison Thackston, San Jose, CA (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A system for providing, to a user, navigation directions to a point of interest. The system includes a device having an output unit configured to output the navigation directions to the point of interest. The device is configured to communicate, to an unmanned vehicle, a point of interest identification. The system also includes the unmanned vehicle having a camera configured to detect image data. The unmanned vehicle is configured to determine whether the point of interest identification is detected from the image data. The unmanned vehicle is also configured to determine a point of interest location when the point of interest identification is detected from the image data. The unmanned vehicle is also configured to determine point of interest navigation data based on the point of interest location. The unmanned vehicle is also configured to communicate, to the device, the point of interest navigation data.